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Different / weird key mappings in terminal in Chrome

See original GitHub issue

OS/Web Information

Web Browser: Chrome 93.0.4577.63 64 bits / Firefox 91.0.2 64 bits
Local OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Remote OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Remote Architecture: amd4
code-server --version: 3.11.1 c680aae973d83583e4a73dc0c422f44021f0140e

Steps to Reproduce

With a french keyboard
Open a terminal under Chrome
Type some non-letter keys (example : @&é"'…)

Expected

The letters @&é"’ shoud appear in terminal

Actual

with firefox : the letters @&é"’ appear in terminal (good)
with chrome : the letters '123456 appear in terminal (bad)

Screenshot

Firefox result

Chrome result

Notes

This issue is only present in terminal, for editors all keys are OK for all browsers. Changing vscode keyboard layout from us to fr have absolutely no effect. Trying to remap keys in keyboardLayout.json have no effect.

Code-server runs from these 2 Dockerfiles :

https://dev.solidev.net/school/develspace/develspace-services/-/blob/develop/base/Dockerfile https://dev.solidev.net/school/develspace/develspace-services/-/blob/develop/vscode/Dockerfile

This issue can be reproduced in VS Code: No

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

jmbarbiercommented, Sep 6, 2021

Closing in favor of https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1245196

1reaction

jmbarbiercommented, Oct 27, 2021

Follow-up : https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1248395 is closed and fixed, terminal works great now… 🍾

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